Probably Vladimir Nabokov is an omnipresence in all kinds of literary works
- while I'm the patient person who underlines even the
vaguest reference I find. Today I was sorting out old or
bettered books and opened at random Katharine
Weber's "The Music Lesson" (Phoenix pb.1999).
"But I've always known him. Mickey is the light of my life, the
fire of my loins... He is only twenty-five years old and I am forty-one - not
quite Humbert Humbert, but this is a little shocking and I am a little
shocked..."(p.32)